Grace Murray Hopper was a computer scientist and American military with a degree of rear admiral. A pioneer in the world of computer science and the first programmer to use the Mark I.
Between the 50s and 60s, she developed the first compiler for a programming language as well as proposed validation methods.
He popularized the idea of a machine-independent of programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL (he did not have a leading role in language development, he was a member of the original committee to create it), a high-level programming language that still used.
Grace Hopper was one of the most influential women in the field of computing, apart from living a life dedicated to her homeland. He focused his studies on improving North American and, therefore, global technology.
Often, the invention of the term bug is mistakenly attributed to refer to an error or failure in a program. Working with a Mark II at Harvard University on September 9, 1947, the engineers found a butterfly hooked to one of the computer’s relays and preventing its operation. Said butterflies went down in the history of computing for being captured in the computer activity log book with the comment “First actual case of bug being found”, (the term bug is not translated to Spanish because it is considered a technical word). As she herself recognized, it was not she who found the insect.
